But my fuckin old ass connection cable that goes into the VCR and shit
doesn't work anymore apparently so I had to order a nice RCA cable on
amazon but that shit will take like 5 days and I want to play Parasite Eve II
now :(

honestly I never had a problem with grinding in that game, the enemies are always whatever level you are at, so it just boils down to what skills you have. maybe stocking magic on occasion can get tedious, but you can always refine it if you don't like doing that

The worst shit was the "random" card game rule cuz sure you could just refine shitty cards, but you'd always get that one where you need like 20 of it to refine and it's like how the fuck am I suppose to get that many so you have like 16 of them and random comes up and all your cards are shit and of course your opponent doesn't have any bad cards so you're fucked

X is a solid 7/10, I like the story itself and how it's an allegory for how christianity is retarded, combat is great, the whole 3D rails shit they introduced is shit, and I hear it's even worse in Final Hallway XIII

The main problem is every single character is terrible except Auron of course and the character design is even worse

It just doesn't feel like a FF game to me, mostly because of the rails thing and the bare bones side quests and the unlikable characters

X definitely has its own share of odd ideas, but I think thats sort of the point. the game seems more dedicated to delivering a focused story, which linearity lends a hand in. the sphere grid isnt very flexible and yea some characters such as Queen Cleavage and kimarhi arent all that great, but yea auron is bad ass and honestly I like tidus a lot too. if he were placed in any other game I'd dislike him, but in x his chipper, obnoxious demeanor helps make his claims of a sin-free, hedonistic world such as zanarkand much more believable to the other characters, which in turn backs up the party's sense of hope